Description Do you live in a city? Then The Wild City Book is for you It s all about having fun outdoors in the wild spaces near where you live hunting for wildlife clues, watching wild creatures, making wild art, playing wild games, having exciting outdoor adventures.
A wild, surprising world of plants and animals is always waiting to be discovered round the corner, right now, in every city.
You just need to keep your eyes open and know where to look.
Featured projects include: - Water graffiti- Pavement storyboards- Recycled bird feeders- Make a parachute for a stick man- Clay gargoyles About the author Fiona Danks did a degree in Ecology at Edinburgh University followed by a PGCE in Rural and Environmental Science at Bath College of Higher Education.
She worked in environmental education for a number of years, first for the Shropshire Wildlife Trust and then for the Berkshire Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust, organizing training for teachers and taking groups of children out to nature reserves and other wild sites.
She then went on to write books about the Chiltern Hills and the Cotswold Hills while working part-time running activities in a pre-school nursery.
She currently runs the Trust for Oxfordshire's Environment, a non-profit making company providing grants for a wide range of community and environmental projects across Oxfordshire.
Fiona lives in Watlington in Oxfordshire.
Through their website www.
goingwild.
net Jo and Fiona provide more ideas for outdoor activities and an opportunity for debate on the importance of real world adventures for all young people.
For more information on how to encourage children to go outdoors, visit Fiona and Jo's website click here Jo Schofield gained a degree in psychology from Exeter University and began her career working for an educational psychologist in London.
After getting involved in the production of a film, she went on to work in the creative department of a TV advertising agency where she began taking st.
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Frances Lincoln The wild city book: fun things to do outdoors in towns and cities, paperback/jo schofield
